Fifty warehouse jobs coming to Stockton

Tuesday

Dec 4, 2012 at 12:01 AM

STOCKTON - BlueLinx Corp., a leading distributor of building products in North America, has leased a warehouse and adjoining acreage at the Port of Stockton, where it will relocate its regional distribution center, and about 50 jobs, from the Bay Area.

Reed Fujii

STOCKTON - BlueLinx Corp., a leading distributor of building products in North America, has leased a warehouse and adjoining acreage at the Port of Stockton, where it will relocate its regional distribution center, and about 50 jobs, from the Bay Area.

BlueLinx will occupy a 120,000-square-foot warehouse and a 5-acre yard at 1005 Humphries Drive, paying just over $439,000 a year on the five-year lease, which begins Jan. 1, port officials said.

"The company ... will be engaged in the storage and distribution of building materials," Port Director Richard Aschieris said. "We're very pleased to have them as one of our port tenants.

"It will employ 50 people, and the wages will vary depending on the jobs," he continued. Those wages run from about $35,000 to $80,000 a year.